12/03/2008 -
Christmas television has more than 500 hours of repeats
More than 500 hours of repeats will be shown by Britain's four main television channels this Christmas according to schedules released by broadcasters.
Source:
Daily Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3544156/Christmas-television-has-more-tha
n-500-hours-of-repeats.html
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12/05/2008 -
Coalition MPs slam analogue TV closure
Coalition MPs have used a one-hour sitting of the lower house to slam the government's plan to phase out analogue television by 2013.
Source:
Sky News Australia
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/article.aspx?id=284269
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12/05/2008 -
Post-Ike Dickens draws national media attention
GALVESTON ? National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman and Houston television stations will cover Dickens on The Strand this year.
Source:
Galveston County Daily News
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=9968cd677286daec
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12/04/2008 -
Britney Spears-style miming banned from China's biggest television show
No place exists for Britney Spears in the most-watched singing spectacular on Earth.
Source:
Times Online
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5286227.ece
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12/04/2008 -
Reporters on the Job
? Trendsetter: : Every move in Russian politics is precedent setting, says correspondent Fred Weir, who covered Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's three-hour television appearance Thursday . Mr. Putin began doing these lengthy broadcasts early in his eight-year presidency, separating himself from Russia's first president, Boris Yeltsin, who rarely appeared in public.
Source:
The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1205/p06s01-wogn.html
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Entertainment
Watch Kate Rodger's full, uncut interview with surfer/musician Kelley James.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/16301.html
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12/04/2008 -
Producers And Studios Stick To Their Guns, Reiterate Final Offer To Actors Guild
As expected, studios and producers aren't backing down in the face of strike threats from the actors' guild. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reiterated that their final offer of June 30 still stands and are urging the Screen Actors Guild to reverse course and throw its support behind the proposed contract.
Source:
paidContent.org via Yahoo! Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/paidcontent/081204/1_330319_id.html?.v=1
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12/05/2008 -
ETV plans to lay off 43 workers
South Carolina Education Television is laying off 43 people to deal with a $2.3 million state budget cut. The network, which has 214 full-time employees, will lay off 15 of them. Another 28 of the network?s 40 part-time and contract workers will be let go. The layoffs take effect Jan. 1. The state has cut ETV funding from $16.5 million to $14.2 million. About 70 percent of that is for salaries ...
Source:
The State
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/611625.html?RSS=local
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12/04/2008 -
Pratt says mother-in-law 'reacting crazy'
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. television personality Spencer Pratt is denying his mother-in-law's allegations that Heidi Montag married him because he drugged her.
Source:
UPI
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/12/04/Pratt_says_mother-in-law_reacti
ng_crazy/UPI-52901228422303/
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12/04/2008 -
Matthews inches closer to Senate run
Chris Matthews is getting ready to play hardball?not on television, but in the down-and-dirty world of Pennsylvania politics.
Source:
Politico via Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081204/pl_politico/16190_1
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12/05/2008 -
High school sports has become big news on TV 3
With fans turning to ESPN and the Internet, many local television stations have cut back on sports.
Source:
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
http://www.telegram.com/article/20081205/COLUMN08/812050434/1118/rss01&sourc
e=rss
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12/04/2008 -
'Californication' renewed for 3rd season
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Production on the third season of the U.S. television comedy "Californication" is slated to begin next spring, Showtime has announced.
Source:
UPI
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2008/12/04/Californication_renewed_for_3rd
_season/UPI-87631228421174/
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12/05/2008 -
Television - Entertainment
Watch Kate Rodger's full, uncut interview with Grammy nominated Jordin Sparks.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/entertainment/16300.html
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12/04/2008 -
Antarctic Cruise Ship Runs Aground With 122 on Board (Update1)
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The Argentine cruise ship Ushuaia has run aground off the coast of Antarctica with 122 passengers and crew on board, Naval Admiral Daniel Martin said on the C5N television channel in Buenos Aires.
Source:
Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=anZHwzTCfLgk
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12/05/2008 -
Television - World
A mother who tearfully appealed for her missing daughter's return has been found guilty of staging her disappearance in a kidnapping that prosecutors said was committed to claim a reward.
Source:
Scoop.co.nz
http://www.scoop.co.nz/multimedia/tv/world/16299.html
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